Advisor Brief Introduction

Professor Jiaming Zhu received his master’s and doctoral degrees in Economics from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in the 1980s, and a Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. Zhu served at the Institute of Industrial Economy in CASS, the Development Research Center of the State Council, the China International Trust Corporation (CITIC), the Western Research Center of China, the Beijing Youth Economics Association, and the China Reform and Open Foundation with George Soros. As a recognition of his contribution to China’s early stage of Reform and Opening-Up in the 1980s, Zhu was acknowledged as one of “the Quad of Reform (改革四君子)”, a symbol of China’s reform during this period.

In the 1990s, Zhu was a visiting scholar and a senior research fellow at the Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other prestigious universities. After 2000, Zhu served at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as an economist, and subsequently taught at the University of Vienna and the National University of Taiwan.

Since 2010, Zhu has conducted in-depth research on the development of cryptocurrency and blockchain, and he is currently an academic advisor to the Beijing-based Chinese Institute of Digital Assets (CIDA). In December 2019, Zhu founded the Blockchain Academy to the end of furthering global and interdisciplinary collaboration on blockchain related research, and leading the world to move onwards with the rise of the digital economy. By now, Zhu is an absolute thought leader in China’s blockchain industry and a go-to person on China’s strategy on digital economy. Zhu’s representative publication is From Laissez-Faire to Monopoly: The Monetary Economy of China, Past and Present.